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Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Border Courts Swamped With New Asylum Cases
Andrew R. Calderón, The Marshall Project, Sept. 13, 2019 "Early this year, the Trump administration began forcing thousands of migrants seeking asylum to return to Mexico, to wait there for immigration court hearings that would decide whether they...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Supreme Court Allows Feds to Enforce Restrictive Asylum Rule Nationwide
Amy Howe, Sept. 11, 2019 "The Trump administration won a major (if, at least for now, only temporary) victory on immigration today at the Supreme Court. The justices gave the government the go-ahead to enforce a new rule that would bar most immigrants...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Migrant 'Protection' Protocols: A Report from the Front Lines
Prof. Stacy Caplow and Prof. Maryellen Fullerton, Sept. 10, 2019 "The laws and policies protecting refugees and asylum seekers in the United States are under sustained assault. Since 1980, Congress has provided that noncitizens in the United States...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Judge Restores Nationwide Block of New Asylum Rule
Maria Dinzeo, CNS, Sept. 9, 2019 "Citing the need to “maintain uniform immigration policy,” a federal judge on Monday restored a nationwide block of a Justice Department rule that makes asylum seekers ineligible for refugee status unless they applied...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
AILA Policy Brief: DHS and DOJ Are Opening Secretive Port Courts Along the Southern Border
AILA, Sept. 6, 2019 "AILA issued a policy brief that shares the little information regarding the DHS and DOJ port courts that has been made publicly available by media reports and elevates the outstanding operational issues of concern that have...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Detained Children Must Have Adequate Food, Hygiene Items: Court
Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 15, 2019 "In a case that dramatized the plight of children detained at the border, a federal appeals court Thursday upheld an order requiring immigration authorities to provide minors with adequate food, water...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
What ‘Metering’ Really Looks Like in South Texas
Stephanie Leutert, Lawfare, July 17, 2019 "Thirty-two Cubans line the international bridge connecting Roma, Texas, with Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas. The Cubans sit one after another on the Mexican side of the bridge, checking their phones...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Second Lawsuit Filed to Block Trump Asylum Rule
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition, July 16, 2019 "The Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition is proud to be a plaintiff and co-counsel in a new lawsuit challenging President Trump’s rule barring asylum for individuals who...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Trump Attempts to Limit Asylum
Associated Press, July 15, 2019 "The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 4 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Mass Video Tent Courts for Detained Border Asylum Applicants?
Debbie Nathan, The Intercept, June 28, 2019 "A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION program that banishes asylum-seekers to perilous Mexican border cities could expand exponentially — and disastrously — with a new plan to hold mass video proceedings in tents along...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Facts Behind the Guatemalan Exodus
Roger Cohen, New York Times, May 10, 2019 "... Pablo told me about the hunger and fear on the weeklong road to the border. Meager rice and beans offered once a day. Being herded this way and that by coyotes — the smugglers he’d paid $5,000 in borrowed...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Asylum Officers Mere Pawns in Trump's Deadly Border Game - Vox Exclusive
Dara Lind, Vox, May 2, 2019 "The first time that one immigration officer interviewed an asylum seeker under new Trump administration protocols, the officer went back to their hotel room, turned up the shower as hot as it would go, and tried to...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Trump's Immigration Efforts 'Backfiring'...No 'Coherent Policy'
Matt Kwong, CBC News, Apr. 9, 2019 "[F]or Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration-law professor at Cornell University , Nielsen was far from soft on immigration. "Secretary Nielsen will be perceived as the most hardline [Homeland Security] secretary...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
'Remain in Mexico' Plan Echoes Earlier U.S. Policy to Deter Haitian Migration
Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter, MPI, Mar. 28, 2019 "Under the Trump administration’s new Remain in Mexico policy, more than 200 asylum seekers have been sent back to Mexico by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to wait for weeks or...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Wait in Mexico Policy, Access to Counsel, & Crime
Jeffrey S. Chase, Feb. 10, 2019 "A February 1, 2019 article in the L.A. Times reported that two American attorneys who work for the immigrant rights organization Al Otro Lado, which has sent attorneys to Tijuana to offer advice to Central American...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Separated Family Members Seek Monetary Damages from United States under FTCA
American Immigration Council, Feb. 11, 2019 "The American Immigration Council filed administrative claims for monetary damages on behalf of six asylum-seeking mothers and their children for the trauma they suffered when torn apart under the Trump...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Advocates Warn of 'Catastrophic Harms' to Migrants due to DHS Policy
CLINIC, Feb. 6, 2019 "CLINIC, with its partners, the American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association submitted a letter Feb. 6, 2019 to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen urging her to rescind the Remain...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Trump Administration’s Lawlessness at the Border: Stories from Tijuana - Sophia Genovese
Sophia Genovese, Feb. 3, 2019 "Following the law should not be a radical idea. Yet the governments of the United States and Mexico somehow find advocacy for the codified rights of asylum seekers reprehensible. I travelled to Tijuana in mid-January...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Immigrant Rights Attorneys and Journalists Denied Entry into Mexico
KATE LINTHICUM, CINDY CARCAMO and MOLLY O'TOOLE, Los Angeles Times, FEB 01, 2019 "Two U.S. immigrant rights attorneys and two journalists who have worked closely with members of a migrant caravan in Tijuana said they had been denied entry into...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
DHS Announces New 'Catch and Return' Border Policy (Dec. 20, 2018)
DHS, Dec. 20, 2018 - "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced historic action to confront the illegal immigration crisis facing the United States. Effective immediately, the United States will begin the process of invoking...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Asylum Processing and Waitlists at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Dec. 2018)
Robert Strauss Center, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Migration Policy Centre, December 2018 "For more than two years, CBP has implemented "metering" procedures for asylum seekers in multiple ports of entry across the U.S.-Mexico border...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Barring Asylum Claims: The President Versus the Statute (Peter Margulies)
Peter Margulies, Nov. 9, 2018 - "... The new policy clashes with the INA’s plain meaning. For almost 40 years, Congress has clearly stated that a foreign national who presents herself anywhere on the U.S. border or at a port of entry such as a...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Amnesty International Report: Illegal Pushbacks, Arbitrary Detention & Ill-Treatment of Asylum-Seekers in the United States
Amnesty International, Oct. 11, 2018 - "The US government has deliberately adopted immigration policies and practices that caused catastrophic harm to thousands of people seeking safety in the United States, including the separation of over 6,000...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Separated Families and the 'Due Process Army'
Jeremy Raff, The Atlantic, Sept. 7, 2018 - "On June 13, 2018, Honduran asylum-seeker Anita and her five-year-old son, Jenri, were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Thanks to a pro bono lawyer, Jodi Goodwin, who aggressively advocates...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Federal Judge Rules Suit Challenging CBP’s Turnaways of Asylum Seekers at the Border Can Proceed
CCR, Aug. 24, 2018 - "A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) practice of turning away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border can proceed. The lawsuit was brought by the Los Angeles...
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